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Release Guidelines

The release manager in charge can release a Bittensor version using two scripts:

The release manager will need the right permissions for:

  • github.com
  • pypi.org
  • hub.docker.com

If you are new in this role, ask for the proper setup you need to run this process manually.

Process of release

  1. Create a branch called release/VERSION, having VERSION with the version to release.
  2. Within the release branch; Update the version using the versioning script:
  3. ./scripts/release/versioning.sh --update UPDATE_TYPE, UPDATE_TYPE could be major, minor or patch.
  4. Test the release branch and verify that it meets the requirements.
  5. After merging the release branch; Run the release script

Versioning script usage

Options:

  • -U, --update: type of update. It could be major, minor, patch or rc (release candidate).
  • -A, --apply: This specify to apply the release. Without this the versioning will just show a dry run with no changes.

Release script usage

Options:

  • -A, --apply: This specify to apply the release. Without this the release will just show a dry run with no changes.
  • -T,--github-token: A github personal access token to interact with the Github API.

Github token

Since you need to use a secret when releasing bittensor (github personal access token), I encourage you to use pass or a similar tool that allows you to store the secret safely and not expose it in the history of the machine you use.

So you can have:

GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN=$(pass github/your_personal_token_with_permisions)

or

GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN=$(whatever you need to get the token safely)

Executions

So, executing the script to release a minor version will be:

# For a dry run
./scripts/release/release.sh --version minor --github-token $GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN`

# Applying changes
./scripts/release/release.sh --apply --version minor --github-token $GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN`

Checking release

After the execution of the release script we would have generated:

After release

After a Bittensor release we have to

Updating cubit

  1. Updating the Dockerfile
  2. Building its docker image (follow its README instructions)
  3. Push it to hub.docker.com
  4. The generated name will be the same but with -cubit in its name